[maven] Passing command line arguments from Maven as properties in pom.xml

Inside pom.xml

<project>

.....

<profiles>
    <profile>
        <id>linux64</id>
        <activation>
            <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
        </activation>
        <properties>
            <build_os>linux</build_os>
            <build_ws>gtk</build_ws>
            <build_arch>x86_64</build_arch>
        </properties>
    </profile>

    <profile>
        <id>win64</id>
        <activation>
            <property>
                <name>env</name>
                <value>win64</value>
            </property>
        </activation>
        <properties>
            <build_os>win32</build_os>
            <build_ws>win32</build_ws>
            <build_arch>x86_64</build_arch>
        </properties>
    </profile>
</profiles>

.....

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.eclipse.tycho</groupId>
    <artifactId>target-platform-configuration</artifactId>
    <version>${tycho.version}</version>
    <configuration>
        <environments>
            <environment>
                <os>${build_os}</os>
                <ws>${build_ws}</ws>
                <arch>${build_arch}</arch>
            </environment>
        </environments>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

.....

In this example when you run the pom without any argument mvn clean install default profile will execute.

When executed with mvn -Denv=win64 clean install

win64 profile will executed.

Please refer http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-profiles.html